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Soon you people are going to see a new face in indian cricket team name Gary Kirsten as a coach. The position was vacant from last seven months after leaving by Greig Chappel. He left the position after early exit of indian team from last world cup. Indian team is performomg well from last seven months without a coach. Recently they won the Twenty 20 cricket world cup and showed a good performance again Aussies and now taking Pakistan team. Again Pakistan team recently few days ago Indian team won the ODI series by 3-2.

After getting new coach in form of Anil Kumble, they won the first at Firozshah Kotla. Kumble have a good records at this ground and again he shows a good performance in this match by leading the team getting seven wickets. After this performance he got the Man of the match award.

Indian team are performing well without a coach. Now Gary Kirsten is all about ready to take the job. Is Gary Kirsten the right choice?

Waiting for your valuable suggestions.

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No10: Kapil Dev

Arguably the greatest all-rounder to play the game, Kapil Dev would have made this list even if he’s been a terrible tailender with the bat. Accuracy and swing were responsible for his 431 Test wickets - India duly named him their cricketer of the last century.

No9: Allan Donald With a nickname like White Lightning, you’re either a big cider drinker or a stupidly fast bowler. Donald was the latter and had it not been for South Africa’s exclusion from cricket, he could have ended up with even more victims. Eventually getting his chance at the age of 26, Donald made up for lost time by taking 330 wickets with some seriously aggressive bowling.

No8: Sir Richard Hadlee New Zealand’s early years in Test cricket were tough to say the least. But one Kiwi goes down as one of the greatest to have played the game. With 431 wickets at 22 - as well as 15 half centuries with the bat - Hadlee was the nearest thing to a one-man team you’ll get.

No7: Wasim Akram Just shading his Pakistan strike partner Waqar Younis for a place in the top 10, Akram was the finest left-arm fast bowler of all time, combing pace with swing to deadly effect. Wasim retired in 2003 after bagging an eye-popping 916 international wickets, including 414 in Tests.

No6: Jeff Thomson In tandem with Aussie team-mate Dennis Lillee, Thomson terrorized international batsmen for 13 years, bowling express-paced deliveries from a slingy action. Injuries saw him play only 51 Tests, capturing 200 wickets in the process. But those stats only tell half the story - there have been few quicker in the game.

No5: Dennis Lillee One of the most iconic images in cricket as to be the sight of Dennis Lillee steaming in to bowl, with sweat band on his head and hairy chest on show. The textbook macho Australian, Lillee snared 355 Test wickets at 23, with 167 of those coming in the Ashes.

No4: Michael Holding Arguably the fastest of the fast bowlers, Michael Holding liked nothing better than to send the stumps of a batsman flying before he’d even considered what shot he might play. The West Indian’s 248 wickets from 60 Tests is impressive but the nickname “Whispering Death” probably tells you all you need to know.

No3: Courtney Walsh Walsh tore through top-orders like they were made of tissue paper. There has probably never been a bowler with so much heart and the fact he lasted 17 years at the top is testament to the West Indies legend. In his later years Walsh swapped pace for guile, eventually ending up on 519 Test wickets - a record at the time.

No2: Malcolm Marshall In possession of the deadliest bouncer, Marshall could get a batsman hopping around the crease like a cat on a hot tin roof. But his express pace was one of many strings to ther West Indian’s bow, along with swing, seam and radar-like accuracy. Sadly no longer with us, Marshall took 376 Test wickets at a phenomenal strike rate of a wicket every 46 balls.

No1: Glenn McGrath

Speed is not everything in fast bowling and Glenn McGrath is a worthy occupant of our top spot. Using relentless accuracy, the Australian ace became the leading wicket-taker among fast bowlers in Test cricket, with 563 scalps in a career that spanned 14 years. Simply the best.

 

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After the relative lull in the first two matches, the third India-Pakistan ODI saw some sparks with Gautam Gambhir and Shahid Afridi being the main protagonists.

Gambhir, who came at the fall of Sachin Tendulkar, straight drove Afridi for a boundary after which the duo were seen engaged in a war of words. As could be made out from reading their lips, expletives were exchanges between the batsman and the bowler. Gambhir took a single to change ends but there was no let up in the verbal duel.

Pakistan’s Shahid Afridi apologised to Gautam Gambhir for his on-field behaviour. He admitted that he was wrong on his part and also said sorry to Gambhir after the match. Both were involved in a squabble in the 20th over of the Indian innings on Sunday at Kanpur during the third ODI between India and Pakistan.

In a post match interview to a channel, Afridi confessed while replying to commentator Arun Lal that he shouldn’t have done that on the ground and it was his frustration on his teammates that belted out at Gambhir. Afridi clearly said that he was not satisfied with the efforts made by the fielders and that’s why he lost his cool.

Gambhir felt the Pakistani had blocked his path deliberately resulting a slinging match between the two. Umpire Ian Gould intervened in between averting any further flare-up. Gould spoke to both players separately and later to Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik.

“I think people love to see a little aggression of this kind in One-day cricket, isn’t it?” Mahendra Singh Dhoni said at the post match conference.

“At times, aggression trickles out. I said sorry to Gambhir after the incident, these things happen. There was nothing serious about it,” opined Malik.

Malik also made it clear that Match Referee Roshan Mahanama neither called him up nor Afridi after the incident.